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Original Poster - Chuan Hou 12/22/19

Unable to change default search engine in Chrome with search6188182-

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Ran Malwarebytes and Sophos Home, which said my Mac is clean---no virus

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D Darpan Pelle India 12/22/19

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/23527318?hl=en 1/5
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same issue i ma facing from today morning 

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12/22/19
Matti nescio

Have you followed the manual removal instructions in https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/15969-lkysearchex01269-a-

akamaihd-net-redirect-mac ? 

R Rahimi 12/24/19

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/23527318?hl=en 2/5
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I also have a same problem. and yes, i already follow manual instruction but the akamaihd keep in the search engine in the
setting.

J Jian 12/26/19

Similar issue here.

You can see a black rectangle on the right under the first row. This appears when I clicked the three dots symbol. I cannot
remove this search engine.

Try go to System Preference ->  Profiles, see if there are suspicious profiles added to your mac.
I remove "QuickLook" and the a,akamaihd.net search engine disappeared.

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D Dean Beaumont 12/27/19

The profiles solution worked for me!!  Thank you!!

Steven Lee 8572 12/27/19

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Finally a simple solution.

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Remove the profiles from system prefs WORKS!

Thanks.

F Felicia chien 12/27/19

OMG. This saved my sanity! I finally got it off my computer. Thank you!!!

A Audrey Akoun 12/28/19

This solution don't work for me, any other things to try please ?

P Perspectives In Motion 12/30/19

Steven Lee 8572; Do you mean removing the Login Items within the Users & Groups in System preferences? I have none in my
list and I still have the issue.
Or you mean removing my profile?

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U User 11242772536615818479 27 min

Thank you so much jian for the solution,

On Mac remove suspicious profiles from settings profile page
Restart your computer
Go to chrome manage search engines and now you will be able to remove the link

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